All parties represented in the Municipality of La Orotava (CC-PNC, PSOE, Assembly and PP) voted this Tuesday, January 25, 2022, in favor of a proposal to urge the Canary Islands Government to merge the judicial districts of La Orotava and Puerto de la Cruz in one, based in the municipality of Villero. The proposal, which started from the government group but became institutional, adds to the request for unification raised by the senior judges of both judicial parties.
The motion calls for the Ministry of Justice of the Government of the Canary Islands to promote the unification of both judicial parties and offer municipal collaboration in this regard. The Municipality of La Orotava is made available to the aforementioned Ministry to “study the possible locations within the municipality of La Orotava de a future Palace of Justice of the Valley of La Orotava as the seat of the new judicial district.
The judicial district of La Orotava is made up of five courts of first instance and instruction, serving a total of six municipalities in the North: The Massacre of Acentejo, La Victoria de Acentejo, Santa Úrsula, La Orotava, Los Realejos and San Juan de la Rambla. The judicial party of Cross port It covers a single municipality, but is made up of three courts of first instance and instruction.
Barely seven kilometers now separate the five courts of the Villa and the three of the tourist city
The deans of both judicial parties have raised requests for the merger of both judicial parties through writings dated June 2020. These petitions contain reports addressed to the Government Chamber of the Superior Court of Justice of the Canary Islands (TSJC) that endorse “the need to create new bodies or judicial positions in the respective judicial districts.”
For the senior judges of both parties, there are ample reasons that support this unification, “both geographically, given that both venues are barely 7 kilometers apart, as well as of interest to legal professionals and operators, and of improvement of the service provided to citizens».
The villera Corporation unanimously supports a proposal that “may be the key to increasing the number of judges assigned to the new judicial party.” According to the Canarian average, there are about 12 judges or magistrates for every 100,000 inhabitants, “so a judicial district of 116,957 inhabitants, as would result from the unification, should have 13 judges or magistrates compared to the five that La Orotava currently has», exposes the motion.
The City Council of La Orotava offers itself to the Canarian Government to look for locations for a new courthouse in the North
This unification could also be accompanied by the possibility of “creating an exclusive court for Gender Violence that would cover most of the north of Tenerifevery necessary due to the volume of cases of this nature that proliferate in both judicial districts, often leaving the needs of one judicial district and the other poorly attended to, causing delays and coordination problems in judicial proceedings.
The full villero considers that the unification can be a great boost to provide the judicial bodies with greater staffing and offer “a much faster service for the citizen than the one currently provided”.
